Monthly Archives: May 2017

The newspaper The Guardian has recently published an article featuring again the labor that IIE Scholar Rescue Fund and other organizations do in order to help scientist refugees continue their careers. Sometimes, and due to the limited number of available positions, they are forced to see their careers delayed for years. It is very important to spread the word to minimize these cases, if you work in a possible hosting university or know any please Contact Us. Also join us in our mentorship program to help refugee scientist to settle in the new environment as soon as they arrive to the university. You can read the entire article in here:..

Last Friday, the event ‘Conflict-Awareness and Implementation of Peace Education’ congregated Member States, organizations of the United Nations System, as well as non-governmental organizations at the United Nations (UN). Organized by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Malawi, the event was meant to remember which the fundamental values of the United Nations are and to commemorate the observance day ‘Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives During the Second World War’. GoTogether Initiative was there along with many other non-profit organizations to underscore the importance of conflict-awareness and to foster the implementation of peace education for the future generations. During the event, it was strengthened in several occasions the role of women and youth in implementing peace security and ensure peace education in order to ‘finish and overcome the actual boundaries of society and..

On April 30, Congress has agreed to give an extra $2 billion for NIH, a boost that comes as part of legislation allocating $1.1 trillion, and it rejects Trump's proposal of 18% cut to the NIH funding for 2018. The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), states: “The FY 2017 omnibus appropriations bill is critical. Not only will it keep federal agencies operating through September 30, 2017, but it also includes a significant increase for the National Institutes of Health and additional funding for the National Science Foundation and Department of Agriculture research programs.” You can find more information in The..